Brian Jepson’s Weblog

I’ve been using a Sharp
Actius for those times when I need Windows XP or when I want to
travel light. But I’ve been frustrated by my apparent lack of ability to
control LongRun’s power management behavior. I recently found some utilities that let me see
the CPU speed, and it cemented my frustration: when I unplugged the
power adapter, I got a flat 300MHz.

Well, this morning I was messing around with the Control Panel Power
settings, and set it from “Max Battery” to “Portable/Laptop”, and even
when unplugged, I found it was speeding up to 1GHz when it needed it.
All this time, I thought that the Power Options control panel only
controlled the timers (sleep, display off, and disk spindown).

I’ll be speaking at the Long Island Mac User Group
tomorrow night about using Mac OS X with cellular networks. I’ll talk
about EDGE, 1xEV-DO, 1xRTT, and GPRS, and let folks know what works well
with a Mac.

DJ
Tek: “The pictures are worth a million words…” (he’s not
kidding–great story, great photos)